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Complacency can kill. You would have to be living under a rock to be unaware that heat exposure can be deadly. Yet every year Australia – supposedly the “clever country” – endangers the lives of everyone…

Australian Open staff and volunteers also suffered in the heatwave.
AAPJanuary 21, 2014

On days when the Victorian Health Department issued Heat Health Alerts warning the extreme hot weather substantially increased the risk of heat-related illness and mortality, and outside work on Victorian…

Shifting hemispheres? A good training plan must include time to acclimatise.
Vox EfxJanuary 20, 2014

Two of Australia’s biggest international sporting events kicked off last week – the Australian Open in Melbourne and the Tour Down Under in Adelaide – coinciding with a heatwave over southeast Australia…

Tennis fans cool off at the Australian Open in Melbourne this week.
AAP Image/Joe CastroJanuary 15, 2014

Just as Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 identified a temperature at which paper self-combusts, the Australian Open has just shown the world that there is a temperature at which tennis players start…

A different type of Grand Slam: Carlos Moya of Spain loses his cool at the Australian Open in 2005.
AAP/Joe CastroJanuary 12, 2014

Over the next two weeks, Melbourne Park will host the world’s best tennis players for the Australian Open. We expect the best to perform under the watchful gaze of millions of fans around the world, so…

Old is the new young, in tennis anyway: at 35 years old, Germany’s Tommy Haas is still winning tournaments.
EPA/Marc MuellerJanuary 8, 2014

Lleyton Hewitt won the Brisbane International last weekend at the age of 32. Roger Federer and David Ferrer, two of the world’s top ten players, are over 30. And 35-year-old crowd favourite Tommy Haas…